At Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:18:43 -0800, "Bradd W. Szonye" wrote:
> Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > 1. Evaluation order is a different issue from allowing access to
> > previously-bound variables in the right-hand side of a `letrec'
> > binding.
> >
> > The former is in the spirit of adding hash tables, etc. These are
> > extras that you can rely on in MzScheme, but not in plain R5RS.
>> It's not quite the same as adding hash tables. Fixed evaluation order is
> a "quiet extension"; hash tables are not.
Ok, I see what you mean.
> Personally, I think it would be better to change R6RS to match MzScheme
> (and the many other Schemes that work like it).
Hm.... me, too. (Thanks to others who also suggested this.)
Matthew